DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical Ends Off Broadway Run 12/11

DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical, the hit musical by Jerry Mayer, starring Robert Cuccioli, Jodi Stevens and Donald Corren, will conclude its Off-Broadway run Saturday, December 11th at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Ave.) DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical began performances June 5th, with the opening night on June 20th.

Pamela Hall directed the production, with musical direction by Ken Lundie and additional musical staging by Gene Castle. The Off-Broadway premiere of DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical is presented by Edmund Gaynes.

Marlene Dietrich and Maurice chevalier were the top film stars at Paramount Pictures in the 1930s. Married to others, they fell in love and remained friends for life. DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical is the fascinating true story of their complicated relationship set against the backdrop of WWII. This new musical features many of their great signature songs including "Falling in Love Again;" "Louise;" "Lili Marleen;" "Mimi;"" No Love, No Nothin';" "Valentine;" and "The Boys in the Backroom."

Robert Cuccioli made his Broadway debut as Javert in Les Miserables, and is best known for his critically acclaimed performance as the duel title roles in Broadway's Jekyll & Hyde, for which he received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Off-Broadway credits include Temporary Help, Enter the Guardsman, And the World Goes 'Round (Outer Critics Circle Award), The Rothschilds, and the acclaimed production of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.Robert has performed in such notable regional theatres as The Guthrie (Antony & Cleopatra), Paper Mill (1776, Oklahoma, Lend Me a Tenor, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound Of Music), The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Amadeus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carnival), The Shakespeare Theatre of DC (Hamlet, Lorenzzaccio), the McCarter Theatre and George Street Playhouse (The Seafarer, A Moon to Dance By with Jane Alexander). Robert recently starred in Nine at The Westchester Broadway Theatre, for which he received critical praise for his performance as Guido Contini. Films include Woody Allen's Celebrity and The Stranger.

Jodi Stevens appeared in the original Broadway companies of Jekyll & Hyde and Urban Cowboy.Off-Broadway and regional credits include Heaven Help Us (Denver Center and Florida Stage),Harmony, Dracula (La Jolla Playhouse), I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Mufti at the York), Eliot Ness in Cleveland, Body Shop (Westbeth), Antigone: The Musical (TADA!), 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (INTAR), Annie: the 20th Anniversary (Goodspeed), Twelfth Night (Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival).

Donald Corren was most recently seen on Broadway opposite Judy Kaye in Stephen Temperley'sSouvenir. Also on Broadway, he starred in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, a performance that earned him both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Drama Critics' Circle Awards while on tour. Off-Broadway appearances include the original cast of Jonathan Tolin's The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night and Tom Lehrer's Tomfoolery. Regional appearances include Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Autolycus in The Winter's Tale at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, Chico in Animal Crackers at Arena Stage, and John in A Life in the Theatre at The Goodman.

Playwright Jerry Mayer wrote scripts for such classic TV series as "All in the Family," "M*A*S*H," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Bob Newhart Show," where he was appointed Story Editor. He was also Executive Producer of "The Facts of Life." Jerry wrote six of Mitzi Gaynor's legendary TV Specials. He is the author of nine plays including the hit musical You Haven't Changed a Bit, and Other Lies, written with his son, composer Steve Mayer. Jerry has received Drama-Logue awards for comedy playwrighting and his plays have been performed all over the USA, in Canada and in many European countries.

Off-Broadway, Pamela Hall directed the current hit musical Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, which has been running for over a year at St. Luke's Theatre. Other Off-Broadway directorial credits include The Rise of Dorothy Hale and Emily Mann's Annulla, both at St. Luke's Theatre, Trolls at the Actors Playhouse, Neva Small: Not Quite an Ingenue at Actors Temple Theatre, and the long-running hit, Picon Pie at the DR2 and Lambs Theatres. Ms. Hall was nominated for L.A.'s highest theatre honor, the Ovation Award, for her direction of the Los Angeles premiere of The Taffetas. She directed the West Coast premieres of Jeff Daniels' black comedy,Shoe Man, the Fred Allen bio-play Mr. Allen, Mr. Allen, Maltby and Shire's Starting Here, Starting Now and the long-running original musical Crazy Words, Crazy Tunes at the Westwood Playhouse. She also directed Hand in Hand: The Un-Musical, the first musical created and performed by the acclaimed Tony-nominated Deaf West Theatre. As an actor, Ms. Hall has played leading roles on Broadway as Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Phil Silvers, Nina inDear World with Angela Lansbury, and Martha Jefferson in 1776 (with William Daniels and Howard DaSilva), and was featured in the all-star Sondheim: A Musical Tribute at the Shubert Theatre. She directed Promenade, the Inaugural production of the LEGACY: The Musicals of Off-Broadway series, at New World Stages. She had alternated with Madeline Kahn in the original Off-Broadway production of Promenade.

Remaining performances will be Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm. Tickets from $36.50 to $59.50 are available through Telecharge.com or by calling 212/239-6200.

For more information, visit DietrichAndChevalierthemusical.com.

 

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